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(Photo by Natalie Cardona on Unsplash) Like Maren, I read David Sax’s The Revenge of Analog last month, and some points in it chimed with some other thoughts I’d been having around AI. The bo...

https://blog.edtechie.net/higher-ed/the-price-of-process/

Some of you may have seen this article in HEPI in which the author makes an argument against the possible establishment of a city centre base for the Open University. I will say up front, I have ...

https://blog.edtechie.net/ou/a-f2f-ou/

It’s been a busy presentation month. I gave a metaphors talk for Rikke Toft Nørgård’s Digital Pedagogy and Learning special interest group. I like these more informal presentations, and we ...

https://blog.edtechie.net/books/march-24-round-up/

I mentioned my visit to Cork to pull off One Last Job at OER24, which I am now safely and legally returned from. There I gave a fun presentation with Maren on podcasting and internet radio, and o...

https://blog.edtechie.net/oer/an-oer24-transmission/

Next week I head to Cork for OER24. While I may get invited to conferences once I leave the OU, this could well be my last one, and will definitely be my final one as GO-GN director and OU employ...

https://blog.edtechie.net/oer/one-last-job/

In my last post I was doing a backwards glance prompted by the Accenture-Udacity deal. In this one, I’ll look forwards. Apart from the MOOC angle, the other key aspect of the announcement was t...

https://blog.edtechie.net/higher-ed/dont-you-want-me-questions-to-ask-of-new-ai-vles/

Because I was too busy indulging in self-pity in my last post I forgot to blog about Udacity being acquired by Accenture to build a platform to take advantage of AI, blah, blah. Audrey Watters ta...

https://blog.edtechie.net/mooc/dont-look-back-in-anger-or-anything-else/

There’s a bit of a mini-rant following but before we get to my ejection of the toys from the pram, I want to set out a general principle. If you want to know what people really value then follo...

https://blog.edtechie.net/ou/follow-the-biscuits/

If you live in the UK you will probably have seen the story last week about the Willy Wonka Chocolate Experience in Glasgow. It promised a rich immersive experience, but turned out to be a disapp...

https://blog.edtechie.net/ai/welcome-to-the-wonkalarity/

(photo shows Irwin DeVries, Audrey Watters, Brian Lamb and Rajiv Jhangiani in 2015) As February comes to an end, I feel I am entering the wind down phase of my Open University career, with depart...

https://blog.edtechie.net/books/february-24-roundup/